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'Something has to change': Ley’s leadership on the brink

Liberal MPs view a leadership challenge as inevitable. Finding the right time is another matter.

Andrew Hastie and Angus Taylor are presumed heirs to the throne. AAP Image/Rebecca Le May.

Since the Coalition’s extraordinary breakup last week, many Liberal MPs have viewed Sussan Ley’s demise as inevitable.

The conservative flank’s inability to coalesce around a single successor, with friction between Andrew Hastie and Angus Taylor, may grant her more time.

Yet her colleagues view this prospect as a stay of execution, not a permanent reprieve.

“Clearly, something has to change,” one unaligned Liberal MP told Capital Brief on Tuesday.